April 12, 2016 AT 11:07 am

40 Year Old Apple 1 on View in Detroit – This Month Only

There are in existence only a handful of known operational original Apple 1 mainboards. One of them is currently on display in the William Clay Ford Plaza of Innovation at The Henry Ford Museum in Detroit. It is only on view through April 30th, so if you’re anywhere nearby and want to see this board up close, now’s your chance!

On April 11th, 1976—40 years ago—the first Apple product made its public debut. The origins of this device began the previous year, on a rainy day in March of 1975, when a group of enthusiastic computer hobbyists met in a garage in Menlo Park, California. Steve Wozniak attended this inaugural meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club, and walked away with the inspiration to create a new breed of computer. This was the beginning of the Apple 1 computer.